On getting into the age of Digital Convergence, products are getting multi-functioned. To support people to use the products easily, the usability and UI development is getting more important. However, the UI development procedure, requiring the coope...
On getting into the age of Digital Convergence, products are getting multi-functioned. To support people to use the products easily, the usability and UI development is getting more important. However, the UI development procedure, requiring the cooperation among UI designers, producers and programmers does not have a clear concept and process yet; therefore it leads the communication conflict among the groups. On this research, I tried to figure out the role and standpoint among the each related group with the Mobile UI development procedure via the interview with experts and the survey to improve the efficiency on the UI development procedure. Also, I tried to measure the satisfaction on each party and raise points at the current UI development procedure.The following problems were found via the questionnaire, which designed from interviewing with experts. First of all, the boundaries between inter organizational tasks are so ambiguous, especially many duplicated tasks were found between UI designers and producers. Second, each group has its own standpoints. From the important factors - Usability, Price, Launch Time, Function and Design in the mobile development, the Price shows the significant difference among the groups. Also from the important factors - Consistency, Uniqueness, Conciseness, Clarity, Aesthetics in the Mobile UI, the Aesthetics shows the meaningful difference among the groups. Last of all, from looking into the communication satisfaction, even though UI designers do the most communications during tasks, their satisfaction was remarkably lower than producers' and programmers'. UI designers also show the lowest satisfaction with the job satisfaction and the Mobile UI development efficiency. On facing up to the UI development reality, I expect that developing the efficient organizational structure and of the proper communication tools to make organizational communication smooth on the UI development procedure will improve the efficiency of UI development.